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This inaugural volume in the series, Themes and Issues in Biblical Studies, includes 19 articles ...

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Lester Young (1909-1959) was one of the great jazz masters, whose tenor saxophone playing brought...

Who Do We Think We Are (1973) was the fourth and final studio album of the Mk2 Deep Purple line-u...

In this study, gentrification concepts are used as a heuristic device to analyse urban socio-econ...

Brian Fagan is arguably the best-known archaeologist of the past half century. His nine textbooks...

Brian Fagan is arguably the best-known archaeologist of the past half century. His nine textbooks...

Jazz trombonist Chris Barber formed his first band in the late 1940s, but it is the band that he ...

Setting Out on the Great Way brings together different perspectives on the origins and early hist...

In the late 1970s and early 1980s a new phenomenon emerged in UK popular music - female guitarist...

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Religion in Five Minutes provides an accessible and lively introduction to the questions about re...

The North of England is regarded as a region economically and culturally lagging behind the South...

Heavy metal is now over forty years old and has developed into a diverse and multi-faceted genre....

All the human senses become engaged in ritualizing sacred texts. These essays focus especially on...

This is the first biography of jazz pianist and composer Stan Tracey CBE (1926-2013). Drawing on ...

For nearly thirty years, a scientific revolution has taken place in the religious studies departm...

The Original Mediterranean Cuisine is both culinary history and cookbook, with 70 recipes from fo...

This collection brings together scholarly contributions relating to the research of Lance Cousins...

This book traces the trajectories of modern globalization since the late nineteenth century, and ...

Religious and secular communities ritualize some books in one, two, or three dimensions. They rit...

Questions of authority are perennial. Authority has been and still is a key topic in many studies...

This book is a study on the nature and effects of the Therav¿da Buddhist religious experiences of...

The Rosary and the Microphone explores U2 as a politically engaged band that manifests a particul...

Prolegomena to a History of Islamicate Manichaeism provides an annotated anthology of primary sou...

Many scholars of Islam are interested in creating a liberal, inclusive, pluralistic, feminist, an...

The Iberian peninsula has a particular archaeology within Europe. In the Middle Ages Christians, ...

Contemporary Paganism has been a growing segment of American religiosity for over forty years and...

Fantasy has had a modern resurgence in cinema due largely to the success of superhero narratives ...

Of all pop music's icons, the Beatles have attracted more attention and generated more discussion...

Identifying Roots presents a cultural history of Alex Haley's Roots, examining the strategy and t...

This book is for anyone curious about the Bible: what it is, and what modern research reveals abo...

The renowned scientist Sir Alister Hardy approached the complex field of religious and spiritual ...

The Rosary and the Microphone explores U2 as a politically engaged band that manifests a particul...

In contrast to most introductory texts on Sufism, this work begins not with the historical past, ...

Comparison is held to be one of the central methods of the academic study of religion. While many...

Fabricating Origins builds on a series of posts that originally appeared, in earlier forms, at th...

Nonviolence is emerging as a topic of great interest in activist, academic and community settings...

Japanese Buddhist Pilgrimage explores the ritual practice of 'circulatory pilgrimages' - the visi...

Uruk is the first fully historical analysis of the origins of the city and of the state in southe...

Citadel and Cemetery in Early Bronze Age Anatolia is the first synthetic and interpretive monogra...

A posthumous work by the most rigorous comparativist in her generation of Islamic studies scholar...

This book surveys four thousand years of pottery production and presents totally unexpected fresh...

Examples are given of the fundamental differences that are found between modern psychology and th...

The second edition of Religion in Five Minutes-the lead volume in a series of more focused books ...

'Exploring Islamic Philosophy presents a lively introduction to the Islamic philosophical traditi...

Examples are given of the fundamental differences that are found between modern psychology and th...